Fitness Challenge!

[Mickey]

Gonna have to do some research here. I know nothing of these terms. Current visuals aside, I'm an old school, free weight, pyramid builder. I was once a miniature LitTrog. I'd like to get back to that. I know what worked back then, but I'm sure advances have been made.

Gonna have to see what an old guy can do to regain his previous Greek god glory. LOL

[biblemonkey]

Biblemonkey continues to challenge us to set goals. At my age I have found two methods of goal setting that work for me. The first is called a SMART goal and works well over a 4 to 8 week period to make an incremental change. SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, reasonable, and time bound. An example is my current goal to get my waste measurement from 37 to 35 in 6 weeks. I will achieve one inch through toning my core and one inch by losing 6 pounds. You can use SMART goals to ratchet toward a longer term goal. The downside of short term goals that rely on an intense change in life style is you may not maintain the benefit in the long term.


The second method is to make a permanent lifestyle change. For instance after putting on 5 pounds a year throughout my 40s and peaking at a true waist of 44 I decided drastic measures were in order. I quit drinking alcohol and lost 15 pound permanently.

So, pick your poison, a SMART goal or a permanent lifestyle change.

Good advice! I used similar goal setting methods to acheive my results over the last 3 months. First: get back into my tank preferably the tightest notch. Done in 2 months. Second: Lifestyle change and nutrition plan adhereance. So far so good. (;0)

Gonna have to do some research here. I know nothing of these terms. Current visuals aside, I'm an old school, free weight, pyramid builder. I was once a miniature LitTrog. I'd like to get back to that. I know what worked back then, but I'm sure advances have been made.

Gonna have to see what an old guy can do to regain his previous Greek god glory. LOL

The older I get the more I need to shake it up to loose fat and get muscular. This time around I did 2 months of toning weights and reps and changed my entire routine from month one to month two to month three per P-90X. Doing the toning weights was an exercise in self control as toning weights do not feed the male ego at all! Then in month three I used strength gain style weight and reps. I did a recovery week every fourth week that focused entirely on total core fitness, stretching, and cardio. I found out the hard way years ago that taking a day on a regular basis (once a week at least) to focus on stretching slowly and methodically from head to toe helped the changes along and prevented fatigue and injury. It was really tough to do nothing else those days as my instinct was to just keep lifting and get stronger but that would just have caused more muscle breakdown than my body could regenerate and would have LOST my results and not built on them.

Whatever program you use make sure it is comprehensive and structured in some way as starting up after all this time leaves some (myself included) just flailing around in the gym and actually fighting against maximizng our results.